College of Creative Studies
Leslie Hogan 
CCS Music Composition
Resident Faculty

Leslie Hogan CCS Music Composition Resident Faculty Office: CCS Room 154 B Phone: 893-2660 eMail: leslie.hogan@ccs.ucsb.edu

Leslie A. Hogan (b. 1964) studied composition at the University of Kansas, the University of Michigan, the Sandpoint Festival, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Bloch Composers' Symposium. Her principal teachers have been Leslie Bassett and William Albright; she has also worked with Andrew Imbrie, Chinary Ung, and Karel Husa. Leslie Hogan?s music increasingly reflects a longtime fascination with other art forms and with the potential of music to reflect or respond to visual stimuli from the natural world, resulting in works such as Flight (1997), String Quartet #3: Dolphin (1996), Sonata for alto saxophone and piano: 'Thoughts that fit like air' (2000), and Praise (1992), an orchestral work based on some poetry of Robert Hass. Recent works include Sonata for violoncello and piano (2002), written for Virginia Kron, and Questions of Travel (2003), a setting of the Elizabeth Bishop poem for mezzo-soprano and large chamber ensemble. The University of Texas New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Dan Welcher, premiered the latter work on February 17, 2004. In 1999, she co-founded Current Sounds, a new music consortium based in Santa Barbara, California, and also serves on the board of the Chamber Music Society of Santa Barbara, an organization which promotes the performance and appreciation of chamber music repertory through sponsoring workshops, concerts, and outreach activities. She has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Charles Ives Fellowship, 2002; Charles Ives Scholarship, 1993), the American Music Center, ASCAP, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra, among others. Dr. Hogan has taught composition in the University of California-Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies since 1995. << Back